In this topic we will talk about SOFTWARE associated with a typical computer systems. We will also look into Social Impact and ethical issues of software .
Make sure that you will find the difference between the following: Rich Text Format (RTF), Text (TXT), Portable document format (PDF), Spreadsheet format (Excel .xlsx), Joint Photographer Experts Group bitmap (JPG/JPEG), Portable Network Graphics bitmap (PNG), Comma-Separated Values (CSV), Hypertext Markup Language (HTM/HTML)
1. Read this Article 2. Identify Stakeholders, Area of Impact (Stand 2), IT System involved in the triangle.
Find possible software that can be used for hacking/tracking.
3. Discuss the Social and Ethical issues in the article and make sure you are relating all parts of the triangle. 4. List down Terms that are new to you, this part will not be marked. But we will talk about it during class.
NO SOURCES NO GRADES.
Due 28 November 2011, Monday. Submit your work in Turn it in.
Software
In this topic we will talk about SOFTWARE associated with a typical computer systems. We will also look into Social Impact and ethical issues of software .
Some topics you should look into reading.
1. Software developments for disabled people.
2. Software with limited by language availability.
3. What are software utilities? (Defrag and Software Utilities)
4. Difference between Command line interfaces and GUI Interfaces.
5. Difference between, Site License, Individual Licenses (proprietary), shareware, public domain, and open source.
6. Software that were custom built (macros, templates and wizards) and commercially available software.
7. Web-Based software
8. Reason why we have different types of files.(data compression/decompression, lossless and lossy )
Lossy JPEG (left) and lossless RAW (right) photographs.
("Top 10 Myths and Misconceptions." Mrrandom on HubPages. Hubpages. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. <http://mrrandom.hubpages.com/hub/Top-10-Myths-and-Misconceptions-about-Buying-a-Digital-Camera>.)
Make sure that you will find the difference between the following: Rich Text Format (RTF), Text (TXT), Portable document format (PDF), Spreadsheet format (Excel .xlsx), Joint Photographer Experts Group bitmap (JPG/JPEG), Portable Network Graphics bitmap (PNG), Comma-Separated Values (CSV), Hypertext Markup Language (HTM/HTML)
9. Different file COMPRESSION.
Work for today 24 Nov 2011.
1. Read this Article
2. Identify Stakeholders, Area of Impact (Stand 2), IT System involved in the triangle.
- Find possible software that can be used for hacking/tracking.
3. Discuss the Social and Ethical issues in the article and make sure you are relating all parts of the triangle.4. List down Terms that are new to you, this part will not be marked. But we will talk about it during class.
NO SOURCES NO GRADES.
Due 28 November 2011, Monday. Submit your work in Turn it in.